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10/03/2017 Community Housing Fund How to get the most from this Community Led Housing opportunity. Overview 1)What is Community Led Housing? 2)What are the different approaches and routes to delivery? What makes it different? 3)What you might plan to do with your allocation. 1

10/03/2017 What is Community Led Housing? 1 – Community integrally involved throughout the process. What is Community Led Housing? 2 – Presumption in favour of a long-term role for the community. 2

10/03/2017 What is Community Led Housing? 3 – Benefits to the community are defined and protected in perpetuity. CLH is not... Just a more intensive engagement and consultation. A housing association scheme with parish council or community backing. Completely different to a conventional housing development process. Dependent on free land or unusual subsidy. 3

10/03/2017 Approaches to CLH Cohousing communities are created Cohousing and run by their residents. Each Community Land Trusts household has a self-contained, Cooperatives private home but residents come Self/custom build together to manage their community and share activities. Self-help Cohousing is a way of combating the alienation and isolation many experience today, recreating the neighbourly support of the past. Approaches to CLH Community Land Trusts (CLTs) Cohousing enable ordinary people to develop Community Land Trusts and manage homes as well as other Cooperatives assets important to that community, Self/custom build like community enterprises, food growing or workspaces. The CLT’s Self-help main task is to make sure these homes are genuinely affordable, based on what people actually earn in their area, not just for now but for every future occupier. 4

10/03/2017 Approaches to CLH Cooperative and mutual housing has Cohousing a community membership Community Land Trusts comprising the residents and Cooperatives sometimes other local community Self/custom build members. They democratically control the housing organisation Self-help which can result in benefits for members such as a better service and new skills. Approaches to CLH All local authorities have a duty to Cohousing maintain a register of individuals Community Land Trusts and groups interested in building Cooperatives their own homes, and to provide Self/custom build enough permissioned plots to meet that demand. Forming people into Self-help CLH groups can help to organise and develop their projects. 5

10/03/2017 Approaches to CLH “Self - Help Housing” involves groups Cohousing of local people bringing back into Community Land Trusts use empty properties. Groups often Cooperatives involve people who can’t afford to Self/custom build buy or rent their own home, and who are unlikely to get a tenancy Self-help from a local authority or a housing association. Routes to delivering CLH Led by a new group (including self-builders). Extension of existing community-based activity (including neighbourhood plans). Led by a developer, housing association or council. 6

10/03/2017 Self build registers Supporting people to find and develop plots. Neighbourhood plans Supporting forums to build out their plans. 7

10/03/2017 Using the Community Housing Fund It is really flexible! Community Housing Fund objectives “deliver affordable housing units of mixed tenure...” “build collaboration, skills and supply chains at a local level to promote the sustainability of this approach...” “capital investment, technical support and revenue to be provided to make more schemes viable and significantly increase community groups’ current delivery pipelines...” 8

10/03/2017 Using the CHF - capital Unlocking/removing barriers on difficult sites. Site purchase and preparation (with some costs recovered when scheme completed). Grant for mixed tenure of affordable housing. Revolving land purchase fund? Using the CHF - revenue Start up support – advice and grants. Professionals’ fees during development process. 9

10/03/2017 Using the CHF – a legacy Local / regional / national programme Mechanisms to enable CLH Vision and business case for CLH CLH champions (officer and member) Briefing relevant officers Policy support (housing strategy, planning policy) 10

10/03/2017 Next steps DCLG require a plan by the start of March – how to complete the pro-forma. Pooling funds across your authorities. Developing a hub for Yorkshire. 11